ArticleNature communications2024
Potential cycling boosts the electrochemical conversion of polyethylene terephthalate-derived alcohol into valuable chemicals.
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- Direct Electrosynthesis of Glycolate From Carbon Dioxide.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Simultaneously Engineering the Amorphous Phase and Branch Morphology of High-Entropy Alloy Nanomaterials for Enhanced Ethylene Glycol Oxidation.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Rational Engineering of Self-Supported Catalysts for High-Performance Electrochemical Oxygen Evolution and Ethylene Glycol Oxidation.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Regulating adsorption selectivity by charge-polarized AuNature communications · 2026Article
- Decoupling charge‒discharge electrolysis for hydrogen evolution and organic oxidation reactions.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Pulsed electrosynthesis of glycolic acid through polyethylene terephthalate upcycling over a mesoporous PdCu catalyst.Nature communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
The electrocatalytic valorization of polyethylene terephthalate-derived ethylene glycol to valuable glycolic acid offers considerable economic and environmental benefits. However, conventional methods face scalability issues due to rapid activity decay of noble metal electrocatalysts. We demonstrate that a dynamic potential cycling approach, which alternates the electrode potential between oxidizing and reducing values, significantly mitigates surface deactivation of noble metals during electrochemical oxidation of ethylene glycol. This method enhances catalyst activity by 20 times compared to a constant-potential approach, maintaining this performance for up to 60 h with minimal deactivation. In situ Raman and X-ray absorption spectroscopy show that this effectiveness results from efficient removal of surface oxide during the reaction. The strategy is applicable to polyethylene terephthalate hydrolysates and various noble metals, such as palladium, gold, and platinum, with palladium showing a high conversion rate in recent studies. Our approach offers an efficient and durable method for electrochemical upcycling of biomass-derived compounds.
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